Saudi America and a Nuclear Future?
We spoke with Chris Nelder in Extraenvironmentalist episde #76. This is the first part of a transcript prepared by EE listener Scott.
Renewable Energy
Energy Crunch: The future’s local?
The Tories’ announcement last week that a future Conservative government would cut off all further funding for onshore wind was a sure sign of low politics undermining sensible energy policy.
The First Island in The World to be Powered Fully by Wind And Water
The smallest and southernmost of Spain’s Canary Islands is about to make an outsized mark on the path toward a more renewable energy-powered future.
Why Wave Power Has Lagged Far Behind as Energy Source
Researchers have long contended that power from ocean waves could make a major contribution as a renewable energy source.
Renewable Hydrogen on the Big Island
Because of the relatively low population density and the abundant natural resources, Hawaii has the potential to do something that will prove to be much more challenging elsewhere: Derive most or all of its energy from renewable sources.
UN Panel Looks to Renewables As the Key to Stabilizing Climate
In its latest report, the IPCC makes a strong case for a sharp increase in low-carbon energy production, especially solar and wind, and provides hope that this transformation can occur in time to hold off the worst impacts of global warming.
A Case Study in Community Sustainability
Feldheim a perfect example of how a community working together can create sustainable solutions without (and in some cases in spite of) government legislation.
Climate Panel Stunner: Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only If We Act Now
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just issued its third of four planned reports. This one is on “mitigation” — “human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.”
Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man
In my first post on Leggett’s new book, I focused on his analysis of our "risk blindness." But despite his trenchant and uncompromising stance on the potentially catastrophic consequences of business as usual, Leggett is no doomer.
The Four Industrial Revolutions
What exactly was the industrial revolution? What changed, and what future awaits those changes?
Climate change: “the biggest diplomatic challenge of all time”
By 2020, we have to switch from increasing emissions across the world at 1.8% per annum to decreasing at 3.2% per annum. That’s a very big challenge, but that is what margin we’re left with in managing this very very important problem.
Carbon Crash Solar Dawn
Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry towards inevitable collapse.
